With a Napoleon biopic and Gladiator sequel on the horizon, there's clearly an appetite for Big Event Movies
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has drifted away on the breeze, it’s a bit easier to see the whole thing for what it was. Christopher Nolan has made a good film, and loads of people went to see it at the cinema, and so far it’s made north of $725 million on a $100 million budget. Happy days, whichever way you slice it.is, in a lot of ways, a blast from the past. It’s a war story packed with stars, led by a prestige director and hotly tipped for awards season. You’ve seen a hundred of ‘em. They’re BBC4 fodder.
There’s a distinction here between a historical epic and a period drama. A period drama plops a story and characters into a time and place in a few specific bits of the past: the whole of the 20th century is up for grabs, plus the grottier bits of the nineteenth, the fancier bits of the early 18th, and Shakespearean London. A historical epic is less about using a time and place as a setting and more about using it as an engine for the story.
But more than anything, it’s about the size of the ideas. Period dramas tend to be drawn on a smaller scale while historical epics reach for something timeless and gigantic. For instance:broke apart the fundamental matter of the universe and made it possible for humanity to destroy itself;
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